# Favorite TV commercials from your childhood **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578 "2010-03-15T19:37:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/41 "2010-03-17T21:27:13Z")
‘Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet’ - a long-running series of ads, some available on Youtube. ---
**Author:** ![ScatteredFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@ScatteredFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScatteredFrog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/42 "2010-03-17T21:43:21Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Are you sure it wasn’t [Mr. Yuk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsONa3gKIQ)? Yup, I’m sure – it was definitely not Mr. Yuk; it was some kind of puppet or something, with a **smiley face**. Someone on [fuzzymemories.tv](http://fuzzymemories.tv) asked the same thing. > [@jayjay](#): > > Was it possibly [this PSA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyl5Mwr84MA)? Nope…but thanks! (The face was closer to papier-mâché or something, not a fuzzy puppet…it was large, weird-looking and kind of tilted back and forth on a central axis.) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/43 "2010-03-18T01:06:07Z")
[Bic Banana pen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxRM-3YdUQw), early 70’s smartass humor Early 70’s [VD psa](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK_jDA3qrUU), when Harry Nilsson’s influence was all over the place NOT a favorite, annoying [1980’s psa,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zJvX3pIY4) couldn’t be any more 1980’s-ish. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/44 "2010-03-18T04:08:23Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > N-e-s-t-l-e, Nestle makes the very best…chocolate! N-e-s-t-l-e-_ **S…** _ Rock-em Sock-em Robots. Slinkies - "a Slinky, a Slinky, for fun it’s a wonderful toy… Muriel Cigars with Edie Adams ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/45 "2010-03-18T04:12:18Z")
> [@The New and Improved Superman](#): > > “I’m a pepper, he’s a pepper, she’s a pepper, > Wouldn’t you like to be a pepper too? > Be a pepper! > DRIIIIINK Dr. Pepper!” _I’m a werewolf, he’s a werewolf, she’s a werewolf Wouldn’t you like to be a werewolf too? Be a werewolf Be, be a werewolf!_ ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/46 "2010-03-18T14:10:34Z")
He was a guy in a suit and trenchcoat ( buzzcut haircut), who would parachute in from an airplane-usually he would land at some nitwit’s picnic-where the husband was berating his wife for having served stale sandwiches! The Man would instruct the wife to pack the sandwiches in “Glad Bags”-this solved the problem-the man and wife would be p;roperly grateful, and the MFG would depart. Weirdsand slightly creepy! ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/47 "2010-03-18T14:20:49Z")
🆒 > [@Craneop2](#): > > I want my maypo!!! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/48 "2010-03-18T14:34:00Z")
I remember the Man from Glad. “The wet head is dead. Long live the dry look from Gillette.” ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/49 "2010-03-18T14:34:42Z")
“We’re prepared to offer ten million” “Not enough.” “We’re prepared to offer twenty million.” “Not enough.” “We’re prepared to offer…anything…” “ANYTHING?” Ahh Caramilk and Satan. Excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/50 "2010-03-18T14:41:17Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > N-e-s-t-l-e-_ **S…** _ > > Rock-em Sock-em Robots. > > Slinkies - "a Slinky, a Slinky, for fun it’s a wonderful toy… > > Muriel Cigars with Edie Adams Not a real commercial but the slinky thing reminded me of the Ren and Stimpy ‘Log Song’ > [@](#): > > What rolls down stairs alone or in pairs > Rolls over your neighbor’s dog? > What’s great for a snack and fits on your back? > It’s Log, Log, Log! > > ``` > It's Log, Log, it's big, it's heavy, it's wood. > It's Log, Log, it's better than bad, it's good! > Everyone wants a log! You're gonna love it, Log! > Come on and get your log! Everyone needs a Log! > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/51 "2010-03-18T15:29:53Z")
“Open Wide for Chunky!” Chunky going under the drawbridge. > [@](#): > > I remember the older ads when the Norelco shaver Santa rode on only had two heads. This is not a joke. The triple-header was an upgrade. **CalMeacham** is quite correct! (sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells”): Floating heads, floating heads, floating all the way/Norelco is the shaving gift to give on Christmas day!" Colgate Dental Cream with Gardol - “Forms an invisible protective shield!” I _wanted_ one of those invisible protected shields so badly! But my mother bought us Crest :mad: (“Look, Ma! No cavities!”) Yep, I’m a geezer, too! ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/52 "2010-03-18T15:38:13Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > ‘Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet’ - a long-running series of ads, some available on Youtube. And all because [the Lady loves Milk Tray](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1pg1zpNgB0) (unless she giving [Flake](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrKUwUGwQfs) a good time) was from the same era. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/53 "2010-03-18T17:04:46Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I really liked Stan Freberg’s Lone Ranger - Jeno’s Pizza Rolls ad. I had no idea that Stan Freberg had done it, or who he was, but I knew clever and funny when I saw it. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE-NdrzfFOo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE-NdrzfFOo) > > It helps if you realize that: > a.) this is a direct parody of Lark cigarette’s “Show us your Lark Pack” commercial > b.) That’s really Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels – the original and most famous Lone Ranger and Tonto. My favorite ad, ever. So good that Johnny Carson played it on the Tonight Show. The Stan Freberg boxed set has it and a bunch of others, including Ray Bradbury shilling for Sunsweet Pitted Prunes. And, not only was it the real Lone Ranger and Tonto, it was the real guy who did the Lark commercial, IIRC. Others: Here it comes, here it come, Greatest thing you’ve ever seen And its name is Mr. Machine. Odd, Og, half turtle and half frog. And the Noczema take it off, take it all off, shaving cream commercial, done to Billy Rose’s “The Stripper.” ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/54 "2010-03-19T12:11:07Z")
Anyone remember the Frito Bandito? He was around in the 60’s and 70’s and sang a catchy song? [Frito Bandito](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwCTiAQs8DU&feature=related) I also had fun going back to Conjunction Junction and the educational commercials they played that stuck with me for life. A noun is a person place or thing Zero my hero I’m just a Bill Three is a magic number Time for timer ---
**Author:** ![ScatteredFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@ScatteredFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScatteredFrog)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/55 "2010-03-23T22:42:29Z")
Okay, these aren’t commercials, but they aired during commercial breaks. Especially those of you who grew up in the Chicago viewing area: **SNIPETS!** I remember seeing these things in the late '70s. Of course, the only one I actually remember was the one that showed you how to make a “Come Back Here!” – a coffee can converted into a toy that, when you roll it, it slows down, stops, and comes back to you. A lot of the Snipets shorts are up on [fuzzymemories.tv](http://fuzzymemories.tv), but sadly, nobody’s yet tracked down the “Come back here!” one… ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/56 "2010-03-24T13:25:42Z")
Pretty sneaky, sis. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/57 "2010-03-24T13:40:42Z")
The first commercial I really remember is for Liberty Mutual insurance, and it seems to me that there was more than one. They showed car accidents with a voiceover stating, “Liberty Mutual…the company that stands by you!” This would have been about 1965 or so. I remember a lot that have been already mentioned, but here’s one that hasn’t: “Old Man Adams has gone sour!” for Adams sour gum, circa 1966. And the Limelighters singing “Things Go Better With Coca-Cola” over footage of surfers, ca 1965. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/58 "2010-03-24T16:51:53Z")
I’ve posted this one before, but [Little Sister](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Z7fjaCEy0) gets me every time. ---
**Author:** ![\_xiao\_wenti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b782af/32.png) [@\_xiao\_wenti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_xiao_wenti)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/59 "2010-03-24T17:31:50Z")
Someone posted the Frito Bandito before me. It’s not my childhood, but Wendy’s “Where’s the beef?” ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/60 "2010-03-25T03:12:27Z")
No love for [The crying Indian](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM) Yet? :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578.md?page=4)